T.I.’s New Song Sure Sounds Like It’s About His Sexual Assault Allegations

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The rapper T.I. has apparently decided that the best way to address the onslaught of accusations that he and his wife have drugged and sexually assaulted several women is through, well, rap.

In a song, “What It’s Come To,” released Friday—along with a helpful lyric video—the musician seems to take direct aim at the women who say that T.I. and his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, have sexually assaulted them.

“I got a heart made of gold, motives be the purest,” he raps. “And they say hell have no fury like a woman's scorn. Fuck that, I'm crankin' up the jury, who you lyin' on shawty? Extortion, is that what you got your mind on, shawty?”

T.I. appears to repeatedly suggests in the song that his accusers are just looking for a pay day, because there’s just so much cash to be made in accusing rich and powerful men of sexual abuse. He seems to demand that his accusers put their names to these kinds of serious claims, calling them out for “anonymous provocative conversations.” He also appears to dismiss several sexual misconduct accusations against him and his wife as “he say, she say.”

But a fair number of “she’s” have, in this case, decided that they have something to say.

So far, at least four women have accused T.I. and Tiny of sexual assault. In March, lawyer Tyrone Blackburn told the Daily Beast that he had 11 clients in total who said they’d been drugged, kidnapped, or sexually assaulted by T.I., Tiny, or a member of their camp. Many of these accusers have remained anonymous, but the Daily Beast this week named one woman, Rachelle Jenks, who reportedly filed a police report in Las Vegas.

A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to VICE News earlier this week that police were investigating the couple, but declined to give further details. The Daily Beast reported that one accuser had met virtually with detectives in April.

A spokesperson for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department also confirmed to VICE News that it had received “a report of a sexual assault incident alleged to have occurred in 2010 involving Clifford Harris and Tameka Harris,” a reference to the couple’s legal names. But the incident was reported on May 8, 2021, beyond the statute of limitations for the alleged sexual assault, so the case was closed.

T.I. and Tiny have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. In a statement this week, after the Daily Beast story was published, an attorney for T.I. and Tiny told People magazine that they hadn’t been contacted by “any member of law enforcement from any other jurisdiction in the country.”

“Even assuming the story in the Daily Beast is close to accurate, it appears the LAPD ‘accuser’ has chosen once again to remain anonymous, thereby preventing us from being in a position to disprove or refute her allegations—or even examine them,” the couple’s attorney’s statement read. “Meanwhile, although we now appear for the first time to have the name of an ‘accuser’ who supposedly filed a police report with LVPD, we have absolutely zero details about her or her claim.”